Work-needing packages report for Jun 16, 2006
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested
through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the
last week.
Total number of orphaned packages: 280 (new: 1)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 86 (new: 3)
Total number of packages requested help for: 21 (new: 1)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
sawfish (#373702), orphaned yesterday
Description: a window manager for X11
Reverse Depends: gnome-core sawfish-merlin-ugliness sawfish-pager
sawfish-themes sawfish-xmms
Installations reported by Popcon: 1063
279 older packages have been omitted from this listing, see
http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned for a complete list.
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The following packages have been given up for adoption:
libraw1394 (#372802), offered 4 days ago
Description: library for direct access to IEEE 1394 bus (aka
FireWire)
Reverse Depends: coriander dvgrab ffmpeg ffmpeg2theora gscanbus
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gstreamer0.8-dv kcontrol kino
libavc1394-0 (19 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 7466
libspf2 (#372629), offered 5 days ago
Description: Sender Policy Framework library, written in C
Reverse Depends: libspf2-dev spfquery
Installations reported by Popcon: 37
libsrs2 (#372630), offered 5 days ago
Description: SRS email address rewriting engine
Reverse Depends: libsrs2-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 10
83 older packages have been omitted from this listing, see
http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa_bypackage for a complete list.
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For the following packages help is requested:
[NEW] ntp (#373824), requested today
Description: Network Time Protocol: network utilities
Reverse Depends: nagios-plugins-standard ntp-refclock ntp-server
ntp-simple radioclk
Installations reported by Popcon: 8037
aboot (#315592), requested 357 days ago
Description: Alpha bootloader: Looking for co-maintainers
Reverse Depends: aboot aboot-cross dfsbuild ltsp-server
Installations reported by Popcon: 53
apt-build (#365427), requested 47 days ago
Description: Need new developer(s)
Installations reported by Popcon: 417
athcool (#278442), requested 597 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 218
cvs (#354176), requested 112 days ago
Description: Concurrent Versions System
Reverse Depends: bonsai cvs-autoreleasedeb cvs-buildpackage cvs2cl
cvs2html cvsconnect cvsd cvsdelta cvsps cvsreport (15 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 7132
docbook (#358522), requested 85 days ago
Description: standard SGML representation system for technical
documents
Reverse Depends: alcovebook-sgml docbook-dsssl docbook-to-man
sgmltools-lite
Installations reported by Popcon: 3331
docbook-xml (#358520), requested 85 days ago
Description: standard XML documentation system, for software and
systems
Reverse Depends: dblatex docbook-dsssl docbook-ebnf
docbook-html-forms docbook-jrefentry docbook-mathml docbook-simple
docbook-slides docbook-website docbook-xsl-stylesheets-ko (6 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 8041
dpkg (#282283), requested 572 days ago
Description: dselect: a user tool to manage Debian packages
Reverse Depends: alien alsa-source apt-build apt-src backuppc
build-essential clamsmtp crosshurd cvs-autoreleasedeb
cvs-buildpackage (83 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 13303
grub (#248397), requested 766 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: dfsbuild grub-splashimages grubconf replicator
Installations reported by Popcon: 10085
gtkpod (#319711), requested 326 days ago
Description: manage songs and playlists on an Apple iPod
Installations reported by Popcon: 339
lirc (#364606), requested 52 days ago
Description: Linux Infra-red Remote Control support
Reverse Depends: digitaldj fbtv gkrellm-radio gxine irmp3 kradio
liblircclient-dev lirc lirc-svga lirc-x (15 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 7400
mwavem (#313369), requested 367 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 6
nas (#354174), requested 112 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: abakus abuse acm acm4 adept alsaplayer-nas apollon
ark arson asc (235 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 8927
openssl (#332498), requested 252 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Reverse Depends: afbackup afbackup-client amap amaya anon-proxy
aolserver4-nsimap aolserver4-nsopenssl apache-dbg apache-ssl
apache2-common (516 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 11872
parted (#262885), requested 682 days ago
Description: Searching co-maintainer for the parted package.
Reverse Depends: aboot-installer autopartkit libparted1.7-dbg
libparted1.7-dev libparted1.7-i18n lvmcfg-utils mindi partconf
partconf-find-partitions partconf-mkfstab (6 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 2432
pbbuttonsd (#270558), requested 646 days ago
Description: PBButtons daemon to handle special hotkeys of Apple
computers
Reverse Depends: gtkpbbuttons gtkpbbuttons-gnome pbbuttonsd-dev
powerprefs
Installations reported by Popcon: 87
sgml-data (#358521), requested 85 days ago
Description: common SGML and XML data
Reverse Depends: alml debiandoc-sgml debiandoc2dbxml docbook
docbook-xml epiphany-extensions linuxdoc-tools psgml sgmltexi
stardict-common (4 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 8442
stlport4.6 (#263052), requested 682 days ago
Description: STLport C++ class library
Reverse Depends: libstlport4.6-dev openoffice.org-base
openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-dev
openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-evolution
openoffice.org-filter-so52 openoffice.org-gnome
openoffice.org-impress (5 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 5490
tikiwiki (#370592), requested 10 days ago
Description: groupware and content management system
Installations reported by Popcon: 1
tpctl (#332648), requested 251 days ago
Description: ThinkPad hardware configuration tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 142
unicorn (#345547), requested 165 days ago (non-free)
Description: comaintainer with x86 hardware searched.
Installations reported by Popcon: 13
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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